Egypt calls for calm after church bombing; death toll at 25

Egyptian authorities try to keep tensions between Christians and Muslims from rising after the New Year's bombing. At least 17 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the attack on a Coptic Christian church.The New Year's bombing of a church in the northern Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria sparked calls for calm Sunday and sent security officials scrambling to find suspects. The death toll in the bombing that occurred just minutes into the New Year rose to 25, according to a stat...

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